Greater Rockridge NCPC

When Crime Occurs

Report a crime If you see a crime in progress, call the police!

Only call 911 from a land line!

From a cell phone call 510-777-3211 which routes directly to OPD dispatch.

To report a crime that has already happened, call the non-emergency number 510-777-3333, or fill in OPD's Online Crime Reporting form. You'll find the link on their Report a Crime page.

For MEDICAL OR FIRE EMERGENCIES ONLY, you can call the Fire Department directly at 510-444-1616. They may respond faster than OPD.

Send OPD an Anonymous Tip

Crime Stoppers of Oakland
(510) 777-8572
Firearm Tip Line
(510) 535-4867
Illegal Drugs
(510) 238-3784
OPD Sexual Assault Hotline
(510) 637-0298

Compliment a Cop

Did an officer, or a non-sworn police employee, serve you particularly well? Would you like to tell their boss you appreciate them?

Compliment an OPD Officer or Employee

Next NCPC Meeting

The Greater Rockridge NCPC meets on the 2nd Thursday of even numbered months: February, April, June, August, October, and December.

Next meeting: Thursday, October 12, 2023, 7:00 PM, Rockridge Library conference room.

Bi-monthly meeting of the Greater Rockridge Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council. In addition to brief presentations by the Community Resource Officers, and some discussion of local crime and safety issues, we will have a presentation from Damon Manni, a local resident, the Lighthouse Project, a grassroots solution he is developing to help Oakland be safer. In-person will meet in the library conference room, masks optional. Hybrid meeting available on Zoom, see below.

There will be a hybrid meeting for those who don't want to attend in person.

Here is the Zoom link for all NCPC meetings through December 2023:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82709204888?pwd=Y3pFQTlWQ3ZiLzd3d3EyK3dPYmxLdz09

Meeting ID: 827 0920 4888

Passcode: 684165

One tap mobile

+16699006833,,82709204888#,,,,*684165# US (San Jose)

Dial by your location

+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

Meeting ID: 827 0920 4888

Passcode: 684165

Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kdFUhud8qY

You can find the agenda for this meeting here. Email the NCPC at chair@rockridgencpc.com if you have items you'd like to add to the NCPC agenda.

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what policing area you're in,
what beat you're in,
the name and meeting address of the local NCPC,
dates and times of the meetings,
the name and email of the Neighborhood Services Coordinator (NSC)
an address where you can reach your beat's Community Resource Officer (CRO)

National Help Lines

Domestic Violence

1-866-331-9474, Teens can also text “loveis” to 77054 to reach an advocate.

Suicide

988 Suicide and Crisis hotline

Available 24x7, call or chat, languages English and Spanish

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Status of Crime Statistics Reports as of June 7, 2023

Details: Written by: Karen Ivy; Parent Category: Resources; Published: 07 June 2023; Created: 07 June 2023; Last Updated: 07 June 2023

As I said last month, I filed a public information request with the City of Oakland on May 2, asking for the crime report listings for beats 12Y and 13X for the months of February, March, and April. On May 31 I got a notice that my request had been closed because the data was released, with the note that “You may find the available crime data at the link below: https://www.crimemapping.com/map/agency/265”

I went to the link. The data on this is NOT equivalent to what I was using.

Data only covers the last 7 days. I’ve looked at it several times and that’s always true. And in the last 7 days it shows NO crime reports on College Ave., which I don’t believe.
You have to apply a (not obvious) filter to restrict the entries to reports from Oakland Police; when I first looked it was all the way from Berkeley to San Leandro.
The “Location” field in the background database is blank – to get location information you have to enter your own address, and then it tells you how far away the incident was. It doesn’t tell you where it was. The position of the icon on the map is very general.
There is no way to identify only reports in our 2 police beats. The data doesn’t contain a field identifying the police beat where the report was filed.

I sent Oakland Public Records an email that day, explaining why I wasn’t satisfied with the data they had “released.” On June 3 I received an identical email from them, referring me to the same link.

At this point I can’t continue to produce monthly crime statistics reports for beats 12Y and 13X. I have no access to the data. The page I’ve always used says, in bold face, “Last Updated Feb. 8, 2023.” And that’s all the data I can find. I’ve sent a message using the link “Contact Dataset Owner” to ask if it will ever be restored. If I get any kind of answer I’ll report it here.

Still no crime stats

Details: Written by: Karen Ivy; Parent Category: Resources; Published: 06 May 2023; Created: 06 May 2023; Last Updated: 07 May 2023

Crime statistics

I just checked the data site and downloaded what should have been the last 90 days of crime reports. There’s nothing in the file with a “real” date (one that has already happened) past February 7. I’ve always gotten the crime stats data from this site: https://data.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safety/CrimeWatch-Maps-Past-90-Days/ym6k-rx7a

Today the site even says, “data last updated February 8, 2023.”

I don’t know what I’ll get from this, but on May 2 I filed an official Public Records Request with the city of Oakland, asking them for the crime listings for beat 12Y and 13X for the months of February, March, and April 2023. In my comments I made it clear that what I really want is the data feed restored to its original site. If you want to look at my request, here’s the link:

https://oaklandca.nextrequest.com/requests/23-4213

I originally assigned the request to the Information Technology department; looking at it just now, I see they’ve added the Police Department as the lead responder, although IT is still on there. I’ll report on what I learn. I feel that, after having provided the citizens of Oakland with a reliable list of what crimes were reported in their neighborhoods since January 2013, suddenly removing the information is an unacceptable breach of transparency. The “last updated” date suggests strongly that this was related to the ransom ware attack on February 8, although what the ransom ware gang wanted with this information escapes me. And if the city has moved this data feed somewhere else, I want to know.